Understanding Organizational Change

The Contemporary Experience of People at Work.

Contents: 1. Change riders 2. Dimensions of change 3. A historical overview of theoretical perspectives and change frameworks 4. Flexibility, workplace change and non-standard employment 5. New technology and power relations 6. The experience of supervisors and older employees under conditions of change 7. Cellular ...

Finance for managers

Calculating and assesing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. Easy to use and nontechnical, Finance for managers provides the fundamentals of financial literacy and offers managers the smart advice they need to increase their impact on ...

What I learned before I sold to Warren Buffett

an entrepreneur's guide to developing a highly successful company

In 1994 Barnett Helzberg sold his company, Helzberg Diamonds, to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in what was hailed as a merger of two great entrepreneurial cultures. In this title, Helzberg shares his 30 years of experience in running a successful business. His wisdom, divided ...

El formador en la empresa

The ultimate strategy library

the 50 most influential strategic ideas of all time

* A genuine time and money-saver-no need to invest in big textbooks * The Ultimateformula is highly successful * The author is regarded as a visionary business thinker-he's the founder of the Bristol Management Research Centre and editor of Future Filter,a business digest for the new ...

The art and discipline of strategic leadership

This work offers business strategists an integrated five-phase model for setting and implementing strategy. The model provides executives with a powerful framework for assessing strategy, or charting a bold new strategic course.

Linear programming

.Vol. 2: Theory and extensions

Linear programming represents one of the major applications of mathematics to business, industry, and economics. It provides a methodology for optimizing an output given that is a linear function of a number of inputs. George Dantzig is widely regarded as the founder of the subject ...

¿Todavía piensas que somos las que servimos el café?

todo lo que un directivo y su secretaria deben saber para formar un buen equipo

Oxford Handbook of Strategy

.Vol. 1: Strategy overview and competitive strategy

1. D. O. Faulkner and A. Campbell: Introduction Part I: Approaches to Strategy 2. J. Kay, P. McKiernan, and D. O. Faulkner: The History of Strategy 3. M. Slater: The Boundary of the Firm 4. D. Barron: Evolutionary Theory 5. R. Loveridge: Institutional Theory 6 ...

The value profit chain

treat employees like customers and customers like employees

With the support of case studies and examples of companies who have adopted Value Profit Chain principles, the authors demonstrate how satisfied, loyal and productive employees produce satisfied, loyal and trusting customers who are the primary drivers of growth and profitability

Management

inventing and delivering its future

The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices for which MIT ...

Building team based working

a practical guide to organisational transformation

There is growing evidence from organisations that have implemented, integrated and supported team-based working systems, that this is the most potent way to achieve a variety of performance related benefits. Effective teamwork can encourage innovation, reduce absenteeism, increase productivity and reduce wastage, improve product quality ...

Coaching people

develop and motivate your team to achieve great results

The strategy process

concepts, contexts, cases

Diary of a job search

one man's journey from unemployment to a new career

Stratigic management and business analisys

Strategic Business Analysis shows students how to carry out a strategic analysis of a business, with clear guidelines on where and how to apply the core strategic techniques and models that are the integral tools of strategic management. The authors identify the key questions in ...

Managing by values

Suggests that a company's success is measured more by quality service and job satisfaction than it is by placement on the Fortune 500 list, outlining a plan for use by organizations, groups, and individuals on how to design and implement a set of ethical ...

Managing complex mergers

real world lessons in implementing succesful cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions

Everybody knows that most mergers regularly fail to deliver the promised benefits, in fact many actually destroy value. This is especially so where there are complex clashes of corporate or national culture to take into account. And yet the potential prize of a successful operation ...

Manutención y almacenaje

diseño, gestión y control

Son numerosas las obras que tratan los elementos constituyentes de un almacén tales como los medios de almacenamiento o manutención. Sin embargo, para entender las posibles combinaciones de estos medios y sus repercusiones en cuanto a la productividad, coste y flexibilidad que aportan al almacén ...

Gerencia interectiva

optimizando la comunicación para implementar estrategias efectivas de negocios